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The first name 
Milla

Milla is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Milla meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Milla is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 girls have been named Milla. In the SmartGenius ranking, Milla is #2,239 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Milla.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Milla

Milla -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Milla. Girls named Milla have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,172 Milla ranked higher than ever in 1892. By comparison, there have been 102 years in which the first name Milla has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1995. In general, parents name their daughters Milla only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Milla was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Milla in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Milla continues to be a precious jewel: 35 newborns were named Milla that year, ranking #3,640 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Milla, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Milla -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Milla are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Milla in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Milla live in California – here, one in 39,142 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 151,149 will turn around if you call her first name Milla.

Milla has 5 letters 
and begins with an M

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.

With five letters, the name Milla is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.

Other names with 
M, i, l, l and a

If you take all the letters in the name Milla – M, i, l, l and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Malli or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Milla

If your name is Milla and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Milla

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Milla, you can simply say:

Mouse

Igloo

Lion

Lion

Apple

This is how the name Milla is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Milla in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Milla

Milla

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Milla

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Milla is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
I
L
L
A

Have you ever waved the name Milla

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

M
I
L
L
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Milla sounds like this: